While di Grassi was the fifth driver in the Super Pole session, his grid penalty pushes him back to 13th on the grid.

Nelson Piquet Jr. just missed out on making it in to Super Pole and starts fifth ahead of Alex Lynn, Oliver Turvey, Nico Prost and Jose Maria Lopez.

Daniel Abt completes the top ten in his Audi e-tron FE04, meanwhile.

An increase in track temperatures from practice to qualifying appeared to affect grip levels significantly with many drivers making contact with the tire barriers or having near-misses as a result.

Championship leader Felix Rosenqvist completed a flamboyant lap but was unable to break through into Super Pole and starts in 14th position immediately ahead of his Mahindra Racing teammate Nick Heidfeld.

Edoardo Mortara looked certain to make it into Super Pole but locked-up his left-front wheel going into the hairpin and lost at least a second, and so he will start from 17th.

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